I earned my good mommy points for the day, and it's not even 9 a.m. yet. I was looking out the window and keep seeing these things fly through the air (and with the "things" that are down here, its rather freaky.) Well upon closer look, they turned out to be butterflies. I saw a dozen in only a few moments. I realized that this is the fall migration of the Monarch Butterflies, which only happens over a day or two and Bartlesville is right in their path South. (For more info http://www.monarchwatch.org/tagmig/fallmap.htm )Anyway...I quickly hollered at the girls and we ran outside to see them. (Grady was actually sleeping!) We spotted probably close to 100 in just the 20 minutes we were out there. They were flying everywhere. Not quite like the coming of the locusts, but every direction you looked you could see them. The girls thought it was so much fun. They kept yelling, "Look Mommy, there's one..." over and over and over. Its actually a pretty amazing feat. These little guys are so programmed, that they fly South in the Fall, then their great, great grand-butterflies fly North in the Spring. They can even find the exact same spot where their ancestors were hatched.
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